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DRFTSMANS SCALE.

(Applicatie-m filed Apr. 5, 1900.)

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.;

ROBERT J. SIMPSON, OF ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE L. S. STARRETT COMPANY, OF ATI-IOL, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

DRAFTSMANS SCALE.

j SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,156, dated Mafyrl, 1902.

Application filed April 5, 1900. Serial N0. 11,589. (N0 model.)

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Be it known that I, ROBERT` J. SIMPSON, of Athol, injthe county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Draftmens Scales, of which the following is-a specification. y

The object of this invention is to provide for the use of mechanical draftsmena tilting graduated straight-edge or scale so constructed that either edge of each face may rest closely down to the surface of thepaper, bringing the lines indicating longitudinal measurements into immediate proximity to the surface `'of the paperand holding the scale at a desired inclination with one kedge elevated.

The characteristic peculiarity of my irnproved scale consists in providing it with studslocated in the line of its transverse center and projecting from each side of the scale-. body, so as to hold such body atan angle to the horizon land permit it to be tipped from side to side and to bring either edge of either side to rest upon the paper. These studs are located at the ends of the scale, preferably just beyond the graduated portion of the instrument, and the ends of said studs are rounded or tapered, so as to tilt readily without indentation of thepaper.

In the drawings, Figures 'l and`2 are plan views showing opposite sides of the instrument, illustrating four diiferent graduations or scales of measurement. Fig. 3 is an enlargedtransverse section of the scale, dotted lines indicating the 'change of position by the tilting movement.' v

A represents the scale-body, a haty steel strip beveled at the edges of one face and graduated along each edge ofvboth faces in a manner Well known.

B B are studs projecting from each face and near 'each end ofthe body Aat points'about midway between the edges. The studs at each end ot' the scale are preferably formed of a single cylindricalpin pressed into a perforation and firmly secured in the'metal body and protruding equidistantly each side thereof sufficiently to hold it in the oblique posi- I- am aware that triangular scaleshave long been known, presenting a surface oblique to the paper, and lalso that scales have been made having aleg or scroll projecting from one edge of the body to hold it in a single oblique position but rendering the other faces inoperative. I am also aware of the Patent No. 585,738 tovBrittain, showing a ruler slotted centrally to receive the corresponding end of a peculiar handle-piece projecting through such slot and xed therein. Such construction I disclaim; but

I claim as my invention- 1. vThe improved tilting scale, comprising the body A 'having a middle yportion graduated at the edges, and blankor ungraduatedv portions at the ends, and the studs B projectving centrally and equidi'stantly from said blank portions at each end of said scale, substantially as set forth.

2. The draftsmans tilting ruler or scale comprising a flattened body having a central graduated portion and blank or ungraduated portions at the ends, and transverse studs set in perforations in such blank portions and extending laterally and equidistantly therefrom on each side of said ruler, substantially as -set forth.

3. vAdraftsmans ruler or scale comprising a flattened body having an intermediate portion graduated at the edges and a blank or ungraduated space at each end, and trans; verse studs passing through central perforations in said ungraduated spaces'and extending laterally upon each side of said ruler, to

support the same in aninclined position, subv stantially as set forth.

4. A draftsmans tilting ruler or scale, comwith the work by gravity, substantially as set 1o prising a flattened body having graduated forth. edges and perforated at each end midway be- In testimony whereof I have affixed my sigtween said edges, and with rigid supporting nature in presence of two witnesses. 5 studs or pins inserted in such perforations and extending outwardly on each side of said ROBERT J SIMPSON' body to a distance equal to about half the Witnesses: width of the scale, so as, when used either L. S. STARRETT,

side up, to maintain either edge in contact i FRANK E. WING. 

